Kathleen Hanna Quotes

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would have the best chance of sounding perfect.

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

If you can talk, you can write.

The only thing you have to know are your words.

I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

There's a voice in all of us, and you can only get expressive through words. There's a limit to what you can do without speaking.

I think poetry is as old as language, and both come out of the same thing - an effort to try to express something that is inexpressible.

It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

I want people to hear what I have to say, and I want to be able to get a lot of points across.

If you're ever struggling for something to say, just take a noun and verbalize it. Using simple words in new and interesting ways will creativize your presence.

When the public doesn't understand me, it's a battle. So when I choose words, I choose them for their musicality, rhythm, and sense, and I choose the right dialect to express that.

Always, with speeches, I feel like it's an opportunity to say something.

All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak words. They say, "How are you" or "I'm not feeling well" all over the world. These common words - these common elements that we have between us - the writer has to take some verbs and nouns and pronouns and adjectives and adverbs and arrange them in a way that sound fresh.

Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.

Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

I don't write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it.

I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.

Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.

Leave words to them whom words, not doings, move.

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

Language is a form of organized stutter.